Adjustable shutter



UNITEDv STATES PATENT OFFICE. v

oHARLES J. KEATING, or BEVERLY, NEw JERSEY, AsSIGNoR or ONE-HALE To JAMES A. MUNDY, vor PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ADJ USTABLE As H UTTER.

SPECIPICATIN' forming part of Letters Patent Ne. 382,707I dated May 15. 1888.

Application tiled December 31, 1887. Serial No. 259,461. (No model.)

To all whom #may concern: Y

Beit known that I, CHARLES J. KEATING, a c1t1z en ofthe United States, residing at Beverly, 1n the county of Burlington and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful. Improvements in Adjustable Shutters, of which the following is a full, clear, and ex'- act description, reference being had to the .accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specication.

My invention relatesto adj-ustable windowshutters; and it consists in the combination, with a window-frame and pair of shutters, of a double-acting hinge which will allow the shutters when unfastened to swing laterally and when bolted together to swing vertically; also, in the combination,with a window-frame and pair of shutters hinged at their upper extremity, of an adjustable lower hinge which may be fastened to and unfastened from the shutter at pleasure by the hand ;^and, iinally, in the combination, with a window frame and pair of shutters, and with means whereby said shutters may be fastened together, of a double-acting hinge at the upper extremity of each shutter to enable the latter when fastened together to swing vertically and be adjusted at any required angle. y f j In the drawings, Figure 1 represents an inside view of a window-frame, pair of shutters, inside bolt'and part of the inside adjustable lower hinges; Fig. 2, an outside view of .the same, but showing the double-acting upper hinges on the outside. Fig. 3 is a side View of the window-frame and upper and lower hinges; and Fig. 4 is a view from the inside, intended to show more particularly the lower` adjustable hinge.

The window-frame A is shown as deep, but is not necessarily deeper" than usual. The shutters B B are constructed as usual, and to each of the same, near the top and on the outside surface, are screwed the hinge-plates C',

' (see Fig. 2,) to which on the inside of the window-frame, at right angles to the shutter, is screwed a similar hinge-plate, C, (see Fig. 4,) and the two are connected by means of the hinge-bolt C2, made in the form of a right angle and playingloosely in the bearings of the plates C C, the operation being such that when thel shutters are swung only laterally the..

hinge bolt plays in the socketabearing of the plate C only; but when the shutter is swung vertically, or, rather, in the arc of a cirinside of the shutter, so that the shutter can be freed from the hinge H at pleasure by the mere turning by hand of the turn-bolt H3, and again so fastened. When the shutters are swung open laterally, the bolt I-I3 remains as shown in Fig. 4; but when the shutters are swung vertically, as in Fig. 3, the turn-bolt Hais moved around to admit it passing through the slot H2, and when so swung the shutter is supported in position by the hook F, Fig. 3, or by other appropriate means, and the hook E, as well as the bolt D, holds the two shutters together when they are swung vertically, 'as mentioned.

y Having thus described my invention, I claim as newl 1. In combinationA with a window frame and a pair of adjustable shutters, the doubleacting hinge consisting of the' hinge-plate O, having a socket-bearing secured to the inside of the frame at right angles to the shutter, a similar hinge-plate, G,secured to the outside of the shutter, and a hinge-bolt, C2,y in the form of a right angle, playing in the socketbearing of both hinge-plates, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a window-frame frame,and consisting of the hingeplatc H',

secured at one side thereof to the frame, the mysgnature this 17th day of December, A. D. other side being slotted at H2, and a turn-bo1t, 1887.

H3 secured to the shutter and adapted to be r inserted in said slot7 the said parts being con- CHARLES J' READING' 5 structed, arranged, and operating substan- Witnesses:

tially as andfor the purpose set forth. H. LAUSSAT GEYELN, A

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed H. T. FENTON. 

